UD Annotatrix: a simple, sleek, fast editor for Universal Dependencies treebanks.
UD Annotatrix is a client-side, browser-only, language-independent tool for editing dependency trees according to the guidelines established by the Universal Dependencies project. UD-Annotatrix supports uploading corpora to the browser to add, remove, and edit dependencies in a wide variety of formats (managed with the notatrix tool), including:
Note: brat and CoNLLUEditor are similar corpus annotation tools, but UD Annotatrix aims to be a simple(r), clean(er), fast(er) interface optimized for Universal Dependencies with an optional server-side component.
Note: some features (corpus uploading, collaborative editing, etc.) only work when run with a server.
| feature | how to use |
|---|---|
| add sentences | click the + button on the top row |
| remove sentences | click the - button on the top row |
| add heads | click on the dependent node, click on its head |
| edit heads | right-click on the dependency arrow, press d, click on its new head |
| edit dependency relation | click on the dependency arrow |
| remove heads | right-click on the dependency arrow, press x, Backspace, or Delete |
| edit part of speech labels | click on the light purple blobs below the blue 'form node' |
| edit tokens | right-click on the blue 'form node' |
| split token | click on the blue 'form node', press s, insert a Space character anywhere in the box, press Enter |
| split multi-word token | click on the lighter blue 'multi-word' node, press s |
| combine tokens into multi-word token | click on the blue 'form node', press c, then either click on one of the green nodes or use the Left/Right arrow keys |
| merge tokens | click on the blue 'form node', press m, then either click on one of the green nodes or use the Left/Right arrow keys |
| set sentence root | click on the blue 'form node', press r |
| direct text editing | edit the text in the main textarea (Note: by default, the textarea is reparsed every 100ms; this can be turned off by click the green on text in the bottom left of the screen) |
| table mode (CoNLL-U only) | convert the sentence into CoNLL-U format, click Show > Table from the dropdown menu |
| support for enhanced dependencies | click the Tree icon below the main textarea to toggle enhanced dependencies on/off; when on, adding heads/roots will not delete the existing heads |
| support for LTR/RTL/vertical writing systems | click the Left-Justify/Right-Justify icons below the main textarea |
| feature | works without server? | how to use |
|---|---|---|
| upload from file | no | |
| upload form URL | no | |
| export to LaTeX | yes | |
| export to PNG | yes | |
| save editor preferences | yes | |
| save annotation data | yes1 |
1 if server unavailable, saves to localStorage
| feature | how to use |
|---|---|
| add label to sentence | |
| remove label from sentence | |
| edit label name | |
| edit label description | |
| edit label color | |
| filter sentences by label |
| feature | how to use |
|---|---|
| dependency editing | |
| locking on selected node/edge | |
| global undo/redo | |
| mouse tracking | |
| chat |
2 all collaborative features require a server to be running
UD Annotatrix can be used in several different ways. Some methods don't require a server backend, although this restricts the available features.
Many of these methods require the node and npm executables. To check if you have these, run node -v. If you don't, you can find installation instructions here.
| feature | local dynamic server | remote dynamic server | local static file | locally served static files | remotely served static files |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| create and edit trees | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| edit GitHub-hosted treebanks | |||||
| collaborative editing | (✔) | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
| chat | (✔) | ✔ | ✖ | ✖ | ✖ |
| HOW TO RUN | npm server |
open in browser | python -m SimpleHTTPServer |
github.io |
Run a copy of UD Annotatrix with server backend on your machine. Uploaded databases will be saved directly to your hard drive. This is the recommended method. To install, run
git clone https://github.com/jonorthwash/ud-annotatrix
cd ud-annotatrix/
npm installYou can configure the environment in several ways by setting KEY=VALUE pairs in the .env file (see the server configuration file).
To run the server, run npm run dev-server in the project directory root, then navigate your browser to localhost:5316. If you would like to deploy your own copy of UD Annotatrix, you could alternately run npm run server.
Access a copy of UD Annotatrix with server backend running on another machine. Uploaded databases will be saved on the remote server. Some currently active remote servers:
- Kevin's website
Run a copy of UD Annotatrix without the server backend from a static file. This version does not have a server backend, so some features will be unavailable. Uploaded databases will be saved into localStorage. Navigate your browser to file:///path/to/ud-annotatrix/index.html.
Serve up a copy of the UD Annotatrix static site. This version does not have a server backend, so some features will be unavailable. Uploaded databases will be saved into localStorage. To start the server, cd to the project directory root and run python -m http.server. The files should be available at localhost:8000.
If you want to host the static files, you can do so by
Access a copy of the UD Annotatrix static site on another machine. This version does not have a server backend, so some features will be unavailable. Uploaded databases will be saved into localStorage. Some currently active remote static servers (items marked with '*' are running older versions):
- Masha's GitHub pages*
- Fran's GitHub pages*
- web-corpora* (beta).
- Jonathan's alternate GitHub pages* (just the visualizer code)
The basic user guide is available on the help page.
We welcome your pull requests! To get started, fork this repository and run (where $REPO gives the fork's URL)
git clone $REPO
cd ud-annotatrix
npm installWhenever you make changes, you will need to regenerate some of the source files. You can do that with
npm run build # just build everything once
npm run build-watch # build now watch the source code for changesSee also: the API Documentation.
Having a problem with UD Annotatrix? Want some one-on-one support? You can try to reach us on IRC at #_u-dep on irc.oftc.net, on Matrix or join our Telegram chat.
If you use UD Annotatrix in your work, please cite:
@inproceedings{tyers-etal:2018,
author = {Francis M. Tyers and Mariya Sheyanova and Jonathan North Washington},
title = {UD Annotatrix: An annotation tool for Universal Dependencies},
booktitle ={Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT16)},
pages = {10--17},
year = 2018
}
- Jonathan North Washington (@jonorthwash)
- Kevin Murphy (@keggsmurph21; documentation of the changes)
- Mariya Sheyanova (@maryszmary; documentation of the changes)
- Tai Vongsathorn Warner (@MidasDoas; documentation of the changes)
- Francis Tyers (@ftyers)
- Grzegorz Stark (@gstark0)
- Jonathan Pan (@JPJPJPOPOP)
- Suresh Michael Peiris (@tsuresh)
- Diogo Fernandes (@diogoscf)
- Robin Richtsfeld (@Androbin)
- Sushain Cherivirala (@sushain97)
- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer (@unhammer)
- Ethan Yang (@thatprogrammer1)
- Daniel Swanson (@mr-martian)
See also: the AUTHORS file.